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cop the bun en · VERB
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(dated, rare) To take the biscuit; to top everything else.
"Tell me," he demanded, "how to throw a man over my head and break his neck, for I am going to kill you, and I wish to know this thing before you die." Of all the ingenuous declarations I have ever heard, this one copped the proverbial bun.
1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter IX, in The Land That Time Forgot:But that which "cops the bun"
Is your sound crack about brave Jack,
"The Man behind the Gun!"
1894 June 2, Punch:
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